After enjoying a 20% growth in entrants this year, the organisers of the Goliath poker tournament are looking to beat the record held by the WSOP for the most entries into a live poker tournament in 2018.

How much of a role is virtual reality going to have in gambling? And what about artificial intelligence? What is esports’ true capacity as a new market? Over at Kindred Futures, a company that ‘seeks out the most interesting companies and entrepreneurs to co-create the future of gambling’, it’s...